City of Weird
City of Weird

Forest Avenue Press

#1 holiday bestseller, 2016, Powell’s Books

The Untold Gaze
The Untold Gaze

Art by Stephen O’Donnell

The Alehouse at the End of the World
The Alehouse at the End of the World

Forest Avenue Press

Longtime bestseller, Powell’s Books

Queen of Spades
Queen of Spades

Forest Avenue Press

Baby's on Fire
Baby's on Fire

Press 53

Froelick's Ladder
Froelick's Ladder

Forest Avenue Press

Winner of the gold medal in the jacket/cover design category of the 2017 PubWest Book Design Awards

This Never Happened
This Never Happened

University of Hell Press

The Remnants
The Remnants

Forest Avenue Press

A Small Crowd of Strangers
A Small Crowd of Strangers

Forest Avenue Press

Lucky Supreme
Lucky Supreme

Skyhorse Publishing

Book one of the Darby Holland crime series

A Long Crazy Burn
A Long Crazy Burn

Skyhorse Publishing

Book two of the Darby Holland crime series

The Animals After Midnight
The Animals After Midnight

Skyhorse Publishing

Book three of the Darby Holland crime series

The Royal Abduls
The Royal Abduls

Forest Avenue Press

Won the bronze in the Foreword Reviews INDIES awards, multicultural category

This Particular Happiness
This Particular Happiness

Forest Avenue Press

Shortlisted for the May Sarton Award from Story Circle

I Don't Believe in Popular Kids
I Don't Believe in Popular Kids

Microcosm Publishing

Zine written by a neurodivergent tween and her mother, exploring inclusion and how to stand up for your unique self

A Girl Called Rumi
A Girl Called Rumi

Forest Avenue Press

Art based on calligram by the author

Winner of the silver medal in the Nautilus Book Awards

Bitters in the Honey
Bitters in the Honey

Self published, Marjorie Robertson

The Place You're Supposed to Laugh
The Place You're Supposed to Laugh

7.13 Books

Landfall
Landfall

Forest Avenue Press

The novel was a winner of the Maria Thomas Fiction Award, Peace Corps Worldwide.

Besotted
Besotted

7.13 Books

Animal Kingdom
Animal Kingdom

7.13 Books

Hot Season
Hot Season

Harvard Square Press

The novel won the 2017 Gold Independent Publishers Association (IPPY) Award for Best Fiction of the Mountain-West.

Photograph by Lucy Wu

The Night, and the Rain, and the River
The Night, and the Rain, and the River

Forest Avenue Press

Art by Clare Carpenter of Tiger Food Press

Parts per Million
Parts per Million

Forest Avenue Press

Design incorporates two paintings by Julia Stoops

The novel was a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction.

Planet Grim
Planet Grim

7.13 Books

Sparks
Sparks

Not a Pipe Press

A romance novel

The Paper Garden
The Paper Garden

7.13 Books

The Hour of Daydreams
The Hour of Daydreams

Forest Avenue Press

The novel won gold in the Foreword INDIES awards, multicultural category.

Dispatches from Anarres: Tales from Portland Authors in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin
Dispatches from Anarres: Tales from Portland Authors in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin

Forest Avenue Press

The collection got the honorable mention in the Foreword Reviews INDIES awards, anthology category.

Carry the Sky
Carry the Sky

Forest Avenue Press

Outlier Heart
Outlier Heart

Institute for Education, Research, and Scholarships

A Year in the Life of Death
A Year in the Life of Death

University of Hell Press

I designed the interiors as well as the cover.

The Story of the Hundred Promises
The Story of the Hundred Promises

Forest Avenue Press

Moss-Covered Claws
Moss-Covered Claws

Blue Cactus Press

Reissue with new cover

No God Like the Mother
No God Like the Mother

Forest Avenue Press

Reissue with a new cover that references the original cover art by the author’s daughter Omo’Dara Ajọsẹ-Fisher (Inkwater Press, 2019)

Winner of the Oregon Book Award

Doll Palace
Doll Palace

7.13 Books

Mythwakers: The Manananggal
Mythwakers: The Manananggal

Hopewell Books

The Minotaur (Mythwakers #1)
The Minotaur (Mythwakers #1)

Hopewell Books

Chicano Frankenstein
Chicano Frankenstein

Forest Avenue Press

The Sea-Glass Shore
The Sea-Glass Shore

Forest Avenue Press

Quint
Quint

7.13 Books

Unrelenting
Unrelenting

Not a Pipe Press

House Fire
House Fire

7.13 Books

Plums for Months
Plums for Months

Forest Avenue Press

Please Be Advised
Please Be Advised

7.13 Books

Wife | Daughter | Self
Wife | Daughter | Self

Forest Avenue Press

To Jones
To Jones

Limit Zero Publications

A Simplified Map of the Real World
A Simplified Map of the Real World

Forest Avenue Press

Updates from the Senior Center
Updates from the Senior Center

Microcosm Publishing

Felan's Fables
Felan's Fables

Northport Press

Art by Graham Franciose

Imagine a Door
Imagine a Door

Forest Avenue Press

Winner of the silver Nautilus Award in the Creativity and Innovation category.

Winner of The Memoir Prize for Books in the craft category

A Dog Named Bronco: Boise Edition
A Dog Named Bronco: Boise Edition

Self-published by the author, Cristianne Lane

One in a series of books also including A Dog Named Bronco: Denver Edition, A Dog Named Gator, and A Dog Named Bear. I designed interiors as well as cover.

Brownie's Big PDXmas
Brownie's Big PDXmas

Self-published by the author, Karena Stoner

Eye on Solidarity: Reporting a Turning Point in Poland—and Finding My Roots
Eye on Solidarity: Reporting a Turning Point in Poland—and Finding My Roots

AP Books (Associated Press)

If I Go Quiet
If I Go Quiet

Published by the author

Who Killed One the Gun?
Who Killed One the Gun?

Forest Avenue Press

Purgatoire
Purgatoire

Forest Avenue Press

2026 Powell’s Pick for Portland

A Tree of My Own
A Tree of My Own

Qilin Press

IBPA Book Award Winner (gold: Best New Voice - Children’s/Young Adult; silver: AAPI Communities; silver: the Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book - Children’s/Young Adult).

A 2025 Skipping Stones Honor Award winner

A book of note in the 2025 Freeman Book Awards.

Nice Places
Nice Places

Forest Avenue Press

Can You See Me Now?
Can You See Me Now?

Piñata Books – an Imprint of Arte Público Press – University of Houston

A middle reader novel

The Gods of Second Chances
The Gods of Second Chances

Forest Avenue Press

Soulwaking
Soulwaking

Harvard Square Editions

Each of Us Killers
Each of Us Killers

7.13 Books

Part of the 7.13 Second Editions series

Edie on the Green Screen
Edie on the Green Screen

7.13 Books

Part of the 7.13 Second Editions series

Golden Gate Jumper Survivors Society
Golden Gate Jumper Survivors Society

7.13 Books

Part of the 7.13 Second Editions series

Misery Boy
Misery Boy

7.13 Books

Part of the 7.13 Second Editions series

The Queen of Steeplechase Park
The Queen of Steeplechase Park

Forest Avenue Press

The Zymoglyphic Anthology
The Zymoglyphic Anthology

A publication of the Zymoglyphic Museum

Like Every Form of Love
Like Every Form of Love

7.13 Books

Swanya
Swanya

Northport Press

Trust Me
Trust Me

Forest Avenue Press

Winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award

Edie on the Green Screen
Edie on the Green Screen

7.13 Books

The Sign for Drowning
The Sign for Drowning

7.13 Books

Art by Faye Stolzman

Soul Jar: Thirty-One Fantastical Tales by Disabled Authors
Soul Jar: Thirty-One Fantastical Tales by Disabled Authors

Forest Avenue Press

Winner of the bronze medal in the 2023 Foreword Reviews INDIE Awards in the Anthologies category

Light Through Trees
Light Through Trees

Published by the author

POST-Apocalyptic Valentine
POST-Apocalyptic Valentine

7.13 Books

The Fig Years
The Fig Years

Road Trip Press

A project by the University of Virginia, unfinished

Sunshine Girl
Sunshine Girl

Heliotrope Books

/face
/face

Kernpunkt Press

Love: The Art of Cherishing the World
Love: The Art of Cherishing the World
The Muddy Goose Guide to the Weird Northwest
The Muddy Goose Guide to the Weird Northwest

Demagogue Press

Anthology and game

Half-Light
Half-Light

Published by the author

Art by Stephen O’Donnell

Forever Blackbirds
Forever Blackbirds

Traveler Moon Press

I designed the interior as well as the cover.

Blackbird Whistling
Blackbird Whistling

Traveler Moon Press

I designed the interior as well as the cover.

Someone to Watch Over
Someone to Watch Over

Not a Pipe Press

Don't Ask Don't Tell
Don't Ask Don't Tell

Not a Pipe Press

Back cover: Alehouse at the End of the World
Back cover: Alehouse at the End of the World
Back cover: Queen of Spades
Back cover: Queen of Spades
Back cover: Landfall
Back cover: Landfall
Swingin' Down the Lane
Swingin' Down the Lane

OK, this is a CD cover, not a book cover, but I just like it.

City of Weird
The Untold Gaze
The Alehouse at the End of the World
Queen of Spades
Baby's on Fire
Froelick's Ladder
This Never Happened
The Remnants
A Small Crowd of Strangers
Lucky Supreme
A Long Crazy Burn
The Animals After Midnight
The Royal Abduls
This Particular Happiness
I Don't Believe in Popular Kids
A Girl Called Rumi
Bitters in the Honey
The Place You're Supposed to Laugh
Landfall
Besotted
Animal Kingdom
Hot Season
The Night, and the Rain, and the River
Parts per Million
Planet Grim
Sparks
The Paper Garden
The Hour of Daydreams
Dispatches from Anarres: Tales from Portland Authors in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin
Carry the Sky
Outlier Heart
A Year in the Life of Death
The Story of the Hundred Promises
Moss-Covered Claws
No God Like the Mother
Doll Palace
Mythwakers: The Manananggal
The Minotaur (Mythwakers #1)
Chicano Frankenstein
The Sea-Glass Shore
Quint
Unrelenting
House Fire
Plums for Months
Please Be Advised
Wife | Daughter | Self
To Jones
A Simplified Map of the Real World
Updates from the Senior Center
Felan's Fables
Imagine a Door
A Dog Named Bronco: Boise Edition
Brownie's Big PDXmas
Eye on Solidarity: Reporting a Turning Point in Poland—and Finding My Roots
If I Go Quiet
Who Killed One the Gun?
Purgatoire
A Tree of My Own
Nice Places
Can You See Me Now?
The Gods of Second Chances
Soulwaking
Each of Us Killers
Edie on the Green Screen
Golden Gate Jumper Survivors Society
Misery Boy
The Queen of Steeplechase Park
The Zymoglyphic Anthology
Like Every Form of Love
Swanya
Trust Me
Edie on the Green Screen
The Sign for Drowning
Soul Jar: Thirty-One Fantastical Tales by Disabled Authors
Light Through Trees
POST-Apocalyptic Valentine
The Fig Years
Sunshine Girl
/face
Love: The Art of Cherishing the World
The Muddy Goose Guide to the Weird Northwest
Half-Light
Forever Blackbirds
Blackbird Whistling
Someone to Watch Over
Don't Ask Don't Tell
Back cover: Alehouse at the End of the World
Back cover: Queen of Spades
Back cover: Landfall
Swingin' Down the Lane
City of Weird

Forest Avenue Press

#1 holiday bestseller, 2016, Powell’s Books

The Untold Gaze

Art by Stephen O’Donnell

The Alehouse at the End of the World

Forest Avenue Press

Longtime bestseller, Powell’s Books

Queen of Spades

Forest Avenue Press

Baby's on Fire

Press 53

Froelick's Ladder

Forest Avenue Press

Winner of the gold medal in the jacket/cover design category of the 2017 PubWest Book Design Awards

This Never Happened

University of Hell Press

The Remnants

Forest Avenue Press

A Small Crowd of Strangers

Forest Avenue Press

Lucky Supreme

Skyhorse Publishing

Book one of the Darby Holland crime series

A Long Crazy Burn

Skyhorse Publishing

Book two of the Darby Holland crime series

The Animals After Midnight

Skyhorse Publishing

Book three of the Darby Holland crime series

The Royal Abduls

Forest Avenue Press

Won the bronze in the Foreword Reviews INDIES awards, multicultural category

This Particular Happiness

Forest Avenue Press

Shortlisted for the May Sarton Award from Story Circle

I Don't Believe in Popular Kids

Microcosm Publishing

Zine written by a neurodivergent tween and her mother, exploring inclusion and how to stand up for your unique self

A Girl Called Rumi

Forest Avenue Press

Art based on calligram by the author

Winner of the silver medal in the Nautilus Book Awards

Bitters in the Honey

Self published, Marjorie Robertson

The Place You're Supposed to Laugh

7.13 Books

Landfall

Forest Avenue Press

The novel was a winner of the Maria Thomas Fiction Award, Peace Corps Worldwide.

Besotted

7.13 Books

Animal Kingdom

7.13 Books

Hot Season

Harvard Square Press

The novel won the 2017 Gold Independent Publishers Association (IPPY) Award for Best Fiction of the Mountain-West.

Photograph by Lucy Wu

The Night, and the Rain, and the River

Forest Avenue Press

Art by Clare Carpenter of Tiger Food Press

Parts per Million

Forest Avenue Press

Design incorporates two paintings by Julia Stoops

The novel was a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction.

Planet Grim

7.13 Books

Sparks

Not a Pipe Press

A romance novel

The Paper Garden

7.13 Books

The Hour of Daydreams

Forest Avenue Press

The novel won gold in the Foreword INDIES awards, multicultural category.

Dispatches from Anarres: Tales from Portland Authors in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin

Forest Avenue Press

The collection got the honorable mention in the Foreword Reviews INDIES awards, anthology category.

Carry the Sky

Forest Avenue Press

Outlier Heart

Institute for Education, Research, and Scholarships

A Year in the Life of Death

University of Hell Press

I designed the interiors as well as the cover.

The Story of the Hundred Promises

Forest Avenue Press

Moss-Covered Claws

Blue Cactus Press

Reissue with new cover

No God Like the Mother

Forest Avenue Press

Reissue with a new cover that references the original cover art by the author’s daughter Omo’Dara Ajọsẹ-Fisher (Inkwater Press, 2019)

Winner of the Oregon Book Award

Doll Palace

7.13 Books

Mythwakers: The Manananggal

Hopewell Books

The Minotaur (Mythwakers #1)

Hopewell Books

Chicano Frankenstein

Forest Avenue Press

The Sea-Glass Shore

Forest Avenue Press

Quint

7.13 Books

Unrelenting

Not a Pipe Press

House Fire

7.13 Books

Plums for Months

Forest Avenue Press

Please Be Advised

7.13 Books

Wife | Daughter | Self

Forest Avenue Press

To Jones

Limit Zero Publications

A Simplified Map of the Real World

Forest Avenue Press

Updates from the Senior Center

Microcosm Publishing

Felan's Fables

Northport Press

Art by Graham Franciose

Imagine a Door

Forest Avenue Press

Winner of the silver Nautilus Award in the Creativity and Innovation category.

Winner of The Memoir Prize for Books in the craft category

A Dog Named Bronco: Boise Edition

Self-published by the author, Cristianne Lane

One in a series of books also including A Dog Named Bronco: Denver Edition, A Dog Named Gator, and A Dog Named Bear. I designed interiors as well as cover.

Brownie's Big PDXmas

Self-published by the author, Karena Stoner

Eye on Solidarity: Reporting a Turning Point in Poland—and Finding My Roots

AP Books (Associated Press)

If I Go Quiet

Published by the author

Who Killed One the Gun?

Forest Avenue Press

Purgatoire

Forest Avenue Press

2026 Powell’s Pick for Portland

A Tree of My Own

Qilin Press

IBPA Book Award Winner (gold: Best New Voice - Children’s/Young Adult; silver: AAPI Communities; silver: the Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book - Children’s/Young Adult).

A 2025 Skipping Stones Honor Award winner

A book of note in the 2025 Freeman Book Awards.

Nice Places

Forest Avenue Press

Can You See Me Now?

Piñata Books – an Imprint of Arte Público Press – University of Houston

A middle reader novel

The Gods of Second Chances

Forest Avenue Press

Soulwaking

Harvard Square Editions

Each of Us Killers

7.13 Books

Part of the 7.13 Second Editions series

Edie on the Green Screen

7.13 Books

Part of the 7.13 Second Editions series

Golden Gate Jumper Survivors Society

7.13 Books

Part of the 7.13 Second Editions series

Misery Boy

7.13 Books

Part of the 7.13 Second Editions series

The Queen of Steeplechase Park

Forest Avenue Press

The Zymoglyphic Anthology

A publication of the Zymoglyphic Museum

Like Every Form of Love

7.13 Books

Swanya

Northport Press

Trust Me

Forest Avenue Press

Winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award

Edie on the Green Screen

7.13 Books

The Sign for Drowning

7.13 Books

Art by Faye Stolzman

Soul Jar: Thirty-One Fantastical Tales by Disabled Authors

Forest Avenue Press

Winner of the bronze medal in the 2023 Foreword Reviews INDIE Awards in the Anthologies category

Light Through Trees

Published by the author

POST-Apocalyptic Valentine

7.13 Books

The Fig Years

Road Trip Press

A project by the University of Virginia, unfinished

Sunshine Girl

Heliotrope Books

/face

Kernpunkt Press

Love: The Art of Cherishing the World
The Muddy Goose Guide to the Weird Northwest

Demagogue Press

Anthology and game

Half-Light

Published by the author

Art by Stephen O’Donnell

Forever Blackbirds

Traveler Moon Press

I designed the interior as well as the cover.

Blackbird Whistling

Traveler Moon Press

I designed the interior as well as the cover.

Someone to Watch Over

Not a Pipe Press

Don't Ask Don't Tell

Not a Pipe Press

Back cover: Alehouse at the End of the World
Back cover: Queen of Spades
Back cover: Landfall
Swingin' Down the Lane

OK, this is a CD cover, not a book cover, but I just like it.

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